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ChoosenKing
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How to prevent viruses without an anti-virus?
Intrusion management, Antivirus
Anti-virus does not always detect a virus especially the newer ones. Mostly Anti-Viruses bypass only this files. If something other than disabling the autoplay option might help, like preventing the injecting of files or restricting file insertion in the windows system folders and restricting installation for all types of executables, like .bat / .com / .exe and .cmd.
ASKED: Oct 21 2008  2:18 PM GMT
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Keeping the OS and applications patched is one step that must be taken. A good firewall with application fingerprinting is another. As you say, application restrictions is another. If you think that just because new viruses are not detected is not a reason to have anti-virus, then I want to caution you that there is still a lot of damage being done by old viruses. They are still out there in the wild and you are likely going to come across an old infected file at some point. That file would create problems that could have been prevented by using anti-virus software with signatures for those old viruses. There's still lots of Code-Red & Nimda out there. Don't be fooled that just because a virus has not been modified or updated that it is still not dangerous to data and systems.
Last Answered: Oct 21 2008  2:41 PM GMT by Labnuke99   26360 pts.
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ChoosenKing   25 pts.  |   Oct 29 2008  1:00PM GMT

I think some answers might be just inside the system. Group Policy Editor can do a lot of help because it holds almost all restrictions. But just a little bit difficult to find the settings needed.

 

Dwiebesick   1740 pts.  |   Oct 30 2008  5:04PM GMT

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